Siding with the owners for me is a no-brainier. The last CBA played out well in everyone’s favor from a revenue standpoint. But with salaries climbing anywhere from 80-152% over the course of ten last CBA, it’s shocking to me that players feel they got taken to the cleaners. You may not invite Bettman to your XMas party but give credit where it is due. Revenue have grown and so has players welfare.
Suck it up and sign Guys, and look forward to another several years of growth.

Conan: Almost 20 years of pitiless cumber! No rest, no sleep like other men. And yet the spring wind blows, Subotai. Have you ever felt such a wind?
Subotai: They blow where I live too. In the north of every man’s heart.
Conan: It’s never too late, Subotai.
Subotai: No. It would only lead me back here another day. In even worse company.
Conan: For us, there is no spring. Just the wind that smells fresh before the storm.